Waiting for the Signal From Home
Dublin Core
Title
Waiting for the Signal From Home
Subject
California
Anti-Japanese
Political Cartoon
Anti-Japanese
Political Cartoon
Description
The Cartoon is titled “Waiting for the Signal From Home” and it shows thousands of Japanese people who are all stereotyped marching from Washington, through Oregon and to California to pick up blocks of explosives from a small shed named “Honorable 5th Column”, the shed has another stereotyped Japanese looking across the ocean with a telescope. The obvious message being one that the Japanese Americans were simply awaiting a signal from Japan to start wreaking havoc within the United States. This is emphasized even more when the definition of “Fifth Column” is a group of people who undermine a larger group from within in favour of an opposing force. This appeared days before Roosevelt issued the order to round up all Japanese living on the West Coast and only months after Pearl Harbour
Creator
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), PM Newspaper, New York
Publisher
Richard H. Minear, Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (New York, The New Press, 1999)
Date
13 February 1942
Contributor
Michael Wilsher
Rights
Original drawings presented in “The Dr. Seuss Collection” by the Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Language
English
Type
Visual - political cartoon
Identifier
20th century California
Files
Collection
Citation
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), PM Newspaper, New York, “Waiting for the Signal From Home,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed April 28, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/315.